Textile makers in Bangladesh have called upon the Government to impose on export of all type of apparel waste including cotton.
This is as per media reports, which underlined the leaders of the textile makers’ body of the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) underlined the need to ban export of all types of apparel waste as they feel the same could be used as raw material for recycled fibre.
Further, they have also reportedly sought withdrawal of 7.5 per cent and 15 per cent VAT respectively on sourcing raw materials from the local market and supplying the recycled fibre to the spinning mills even if BTMA President Mohammad Ali Khokon wrote to National Board of Revenue while underlining there are around 20 recycle fibre factories across Bangladesh that are producing around 24, 00,000 tonnes of recycled fibre annually by using garment waste as raw material.
